Uation of the interpretation "Evacuation was a great success".

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Evaluation of the interpretation “Evacuation was a great success”

        Source A is a picture of all the happy school children all lining up to be evacuated. Now this is not a reliable source when trying to prove if evacuation was a success or not. This is due to the fact that during the war the government had emergency powers. This gave them power all over the newspapers. So this meant that the newspapers posted propaganda about how successful the evacuation was. In the picture, there are all smiling faces, and no signs of a resistance. It almost looks like the kids want to be evacuated. This photo has been used to give an overall positive impression of the evacuation. Now in the picture, the kids look happy, but in reality there was a lot of resistance against evacuation. Parents didn’t want their kids to leave them, and kids didn’t want to leave their parents. In Grimsby, more than seven thousand children were eligible to be evacuated, but on the day only 1,854 children had been evacuated. Showing that there was a reluctance to evacuate children. In the evening telegraph it even described the evacuation as “Though some omnipotent pied piper had been thought the cities of England, stripping them of their children.”

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        Source B is a teacher’s recollection of being evacuated with her children from her school. Now this has to be looked at carefully, as it was written a while after in 1988. Now memories could be different. She explains, “All you could hear was the feet of the children and a kind of murmur”. This shows that the children aren’t the smiling people as shown in the papers. This shows that they weren’t really pleased about leaving their homes and families to live with complete strangers. This could also not be reliable because it could be over exaggerated.

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